Posted
11:00 AM
by Gene
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH! HEEEEEEEEE'S SOOOO KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE!!!!!We well remember how the old Broadway had theater critics.
Brooks Atkinson (respected enough to have
a house named for him),
Walter Kerr (
ditto),
Harold Clurman,
Stanley Kauffmann,
John Simon -- they were read, and believed. We forget that although now regarded as glorified gag writers Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker wrote reviews; they could be tough. We imagine Branson has "shoppers". ("
Broadway! The Star-Spangled Celebration is simply FANTASTIC!") As that crooked street in Midtown Manhattan increasingly apes
THE REAL THING, so its revuers increasingly APE Branson shoppers. Certainly the tourist traps aren't worthy to be taken seriously. When do NOO YAWK's rags take the hint and stop running "theater" advertorials?